Author found deficiencies in Hardt and Kamiya's article (AA 522 799) and he briefly reviewed the relevant research and the nature of the "alpha phenomena" making it clear which conclusions are warranted by the available data and what needs to be done to resolve the remaining issues. (Author/RK)

Authors responded to William Plotkin's article (AA 522 798). They focused on the attempt to explain alpha activity (with and without feedback) as primarily due to oculomotor effects, and the effort to reinterpret previous experiential descriptions of the high alpha state and to substitute a new description based on the data of this study.…

The present paper explores the relevance that brain data have in constructing theories about the human mind. In the Cognitive Science era it was assumed that knowledge of the mind and the brain correspond to different levels of analysis. This independence among levels led to the epistemic argument that knowledge of the biological basis of…